Is this book Capitalist propaganda?

They're happiest when they're doing work they actually enjoy....but the problem is most everybody is working some job they have no talent in and can't stand.

Work is fulfilling. Wage labour isn't.

>>9887392

Our society doesn't really value putting people in their proper place. Like, sure you're probably a great doctor just waiting to happen, but where you were born and your economic status needs you to be the guy who loads boxes of condiment packages at a factory for 35 years. Srry bout that.

I'm happiest lounging around with my dogs.

People are happy when they devote themselves to something they find meaningful. For most of us, work is the closest we can get to that.

>>9887378
I'm sure a guy with the last name "Newport" has had to work lots of difficult jobs in his life. I bet the poor guy had to stand for 3 hours straight once when he was a teenager working at his parents' golf club.

>>9887440
Excellent rebuttal of the author's ideas and arguments! You sure showed him!

I read this even though it's self help. He pretty much says to work on hard things for long periods of time and that distraction culture is awful.

He has a CS PhD and does actual mathsy Cs stuff, rather than being solely a self help guy, which is why I take him seriously.

>>9887402
>this is what the smelly working class tells itself
Back to work, those shelves don't stack themselves.

>>9887402
Ahaha holy shit you're an insufferable underaged faggot.

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>>9887478
People with PhDs can still be pseudo-intellectuals.

>believing the anti-capitalist spook

>>9888919
Yes goyim, keep working and producing.

>>9888936
that is the key to a happy life

>>9888936
In life you're either working, consuming, or wilting. Those are the three states of being.

>>9889166
Filtered

>>9889607
It's okay he's just a tripfag. He won't hurt you.

Protestant worth ethic

>>9891235
>Protestant
There's your problem.

>endorsement of work
>necessarily an endorsement of capitalism
hmm....

>>9887378
You must ask yourself...
>What is work?
What you should aim to do is get in a line of work you enjoy, and then not only will it not feel like working but it will indeed make you happy. It gives sense of purpose, potentially even a sense of accomplishment, like me and my writing. I'm nowhere close to making a living from it but it is already giving me enjoyment, a sense of purpose, something to look forward to. When the day comes that it is my full-time profession, I won't have to work another day in my life because it does not feel like work. It is joy.

When you make a living doing what makes you happy, then I believe that is the happiest state someone could achieve.

>>9887570
Just what do you think you're implying with that post there, bucko

>>9891235
>>9891249

What's wrong with Protestants? Also, are evangelicals the same as Protestant? I live in the American South and everything seems okay.

>implying you would get to just lounge around as a NEET under Communism
Got some news for you there bucko...

People need purpose in life. Meaningful work can be one purpose.

>>9892541
Purpose can do a lot of good for a man, absolutely.

>>9892518
Communism/Socialism is literal cancer. A degree of socialism can be good, but without capitalism a society is bound to fail. Capitalism must be at the foundation or else collapse is inevitable. Bernie Sanders is an idiot who wants free shit.

Any Johan Norberg book beats this crapola

>>9892859
never seen such a post loaded with so much ideology desu

>>9893110
Venezuela.

I'm anti-capitalist and I'm enjoying the book desu. Not finished it yet but I'm learning a lot.

And he's not espousing the virtues of work, but of focus and dedication to craft. I dig it.

>>9893464

You're an idiot. Do you also call Obama a communist? You seem like that kind of person based on your post here.